Aboveground biomass density models for NASA’s Global Ecosystem Dynamics Investigation (GEDI) lidar mission

Joanne C. White | Jonathan P. Dash | P. Aplin | W. Cohen | S. Hubbell | S. Goetz | Jean‐François Bastin | R. Dubayah | O. Phillips | R. Valbuena | E. Næsset | R. Lucas | C. Hopkinson | G. Parker | A. Skidmore | J. Pisek | J. Bogaert | D. Burslem | P. Corona | M. Hofton | M. Dalponte | R. Main | R. Mathieu | H. Andersen | N. Barbier | J. Chave | D. Coomes | S. Lewis | M. Longo | R. Nilus | J. Poulsen | L. White | T. Baker | T. Gobakken | M. Heurich | A. Huth | D. Clark | A. Hudak | L. Naidoo | R. Hill | L. Boschetti | M. Cutler | J. White | K. Papathanassiou | S. Saarela | R. Chazdon | M. Simard | P. Montesano | Huabing Huang | F. Morsdorf | K. Wessels | H. Verbeeck | R. V. Martinez | J. Armston | A. Monerris | D. Boyd | J. Manzanera | A. García-Abril | P. Boeckx | S. Healey | M. Tanase | N. Kljun | P. Patterson | S. Hancock | N. Labrière | L. Duncanson | B. Erasmus | J. Hacker | A. Sánchez-Azofeifa | K. Jeffery | E. Kearsley | J. Kellner | D. Orwig | K. Stereńczak | H. Pretzsch | Martin Krucek | T. Vrška | Kamil Král | S. Deng | A. Ferraz | Eliakimu Zahabu | C. Torresan | P. Fekety | S. Luthcke | R. Scholes | S. de-Miguel | D. Kenfack | A. Mendoza | Rico Fischer | C. Philipson | C. Rüdiger | Hao Tang | Carlos E Silva | M. Katoh | P. Biber | Sassan Saatchi | K. Abernethy | J. Dalling | V. Meyer | D. Minor | H. Memiaghe | K. Cushman | Nikolai Knapp | L. Fatoyinbo | S. Marselis | P. Boucher | David B. Clark | B. Blair | Jamis M. Bruening | B. Imbach | Carlo Zgraggen | S. Calvo-Rodriguez | C. A. Silva | Alfonso Alonso | Peter Ellis | E. Zahabu | Alfredo Fernández-Landa | Nuria Sánchez‐López | Adrian Fisher | Michael O’Brien | Martin Krůček | R. V. Martínez

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